if congressional GOP'ers would stop stalling the process.. maybe, just maybe we can get shit fixed..
GOP Blocks Obama Consumer Agency Nominee
(WASHINGTON) — The new watchdog agency designed to shield consumers from the excesses behind the 2008 financial crisis lost a shot Thursday at operating at full strength as the latest partisan battle to paralyze Congress snarled the White House's nominee.
Senate Republicans were near unanimous in voting to block a former Ohio attorney general, Richard Cordray, from becoming director of an agency they said had too much power and too little accountability.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2101925,00.html#ixzz1fyVvqwsgI've said it a hundred times, here, there, everythere. Major changes need to be made to Senate rules to prevent anything from being done thanks to filibusters.
The obstructionist tactic, known as cloture, was invoked 63 times in the last congress,
more than all the congresses from 1919 to 1982 COMBINED!It's only a little better now because Congress, with a Republican House, isn't doing fucking anything!
I posted this chart from TPM on here a while back just to show how ridiculous this has become.
Isn't it time the bullies got thrown out of the playground and let the smart kids take over and get something done?
Shit...Obama can't even appoint anyone during recesses since the bullies did away with them earlier this year!
